Still a Bad Bill

Updated Feb. 14, 2003 11:59 p.m. ET

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When the Hong Kong Government unveiled its blueprint for new national security legislation last September, it expected only a relatively modest outcry. Although the proposals -- a modified version of which were published as a draft bill Thursday -- constitute the greatest inroad into the former British colony's civil liberties since the 1997 return to China, the administration of...